Metallic end for vehicles



Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

B. K. BUMPASS. METALLIC END FOR VEHICLES.

ATTORNEY.

0-, mow-um WITNESSES (No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD K. BUMPASS, OF PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS.

METALLIC END FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,664, dated April'7, 1891.

Application filed September 291 1890. Serial No, 366,468. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD K. BUMPAss, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pine Bluif, in the county of Jefferson and State ofArkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MetalEnds. for Side and Spring Bars of Carriages and Buggies; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to metallic ends for side bars and other likeparts on vehicles; and it consists in the novel construction andarrangement of its parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the endof a side bar B and part of the axle C and wood-work c with my inventionattached thereto. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of my invention with lugs m a;left off.

My invention is described as follows:

It consists of a casting A, having a finished end a and a hollow end a.The hollow end consists of two side plates a a each provided with a lug0c, and a top plate aiwhich has perforations Q The inner faces of theside plates converge slightly at their outer ends. (See Fig. 2.) Toapply this end the side bar 13 is cut to fit in the tapering socketformed by the side plates and the top plate, and holes are then boredthrough it to correspond with the holes a in the top plate, so that theend of the bar 13 may by a draw-bore be made to fit very tightlytherein. Then bolts 12 are passed through both the top plate and sidebarB and are secured under axle Gin any suitable manner. There are smallsockets Y cut in the wood-work c of the axle O to receive the lugs 00.Said sockets are not as long as the said woodwork 0 is wide, leaving agood strong abut-- ment at each end of said socket, and the said lugsare just long enough to fit into said sockets. This will prevent theside bar from having any longitudinal or lateral motion, and theyholding the side bar in both directions and the bolts. b holding it down'to the axle also and preventing any longitudinal motion makes itimpossible for said side bar to slip.

As a modification of my invention I may dispense with the lugs as andcut a depression in the wood-work cto receive the casting and side bar,and thus equally prevent lateral motion, while the said bolts preventlongitudinal motion.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

The combination of the metallic end A, having the hollow en'd consistingof the top plate a having the perforations a, side plates a havingconverging inner sides and the short downwardly-extending lugs 00, sidebar 13, secured tightly by draw-bore in said end, axlecap 0, having theshort sockets 3 to receive the lugs 00, and axle O, fitting under cap 0,bolts 19,

passing through the perforations in top plate a through said bar B,thence down on either side of said cap 0 and axle O, and secured by anysuitable means, all substantially as shown and described, and for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD K. BUMPASS. Witnesses:

EDWARD I-I. OoLHoUER, WILLIAM J. HARPER.

